The Paris 1976 tasting is an American triumph story.
Here is my quick, simple ,overview.
There is this tasting every year of the best wines worldwide and France always wins. But California is making good quality wine even though no one wants to believe it yet. The blind tasters taste the wines and decide the good wine has to be French, and the bad wine is American. They do some serious trash talking about the wine they think is American too. But low and behold it is revealed the good, amazing, fabulous wine is from California. The French blind tasters demand a retaste. Again, they declare the awful wine Californian and the good wine French. WRONG AGAIN. It was HUGE I tell ya. This event changed the wine industry. America , especially California was offically a major player in the quality wine producing industry.
Bottle Shock is the fictionalized movie coming out in August about this event. I can't wait to see it. I missed an opportunity to see a free screening at SIFF. Check out the preview. Plus, I love Alan Rickman in anything! Truely!
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the movie was exceptional i wish it would come out everywhere, but it's an indy release. Luckily its playing in Los Angeles, but if it's not playing in your area, i highly recommend finding it somewhere haha. anyways there's also a cool sweepstakes on the website, www.bottleshockthemovie.com check it out.
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